The following article by Anne Gearan was posted on the Washington Post website August 27, 2017:
President Trump “speaks for himself” on his values, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday.
The U.S. commitment to tolerance and equality is unchanged, Tillerson said, in the wake of controversy over Trump’s response to racially tinged violence.
“We express America’s values from the State Department — our commitment to freedom, our commitment to equal treatment of people the world over,” Tillerson said on “Fox News Sunday,” adding: “And that message has never changed.”
A United Nations committee last week criticized Trump for what it deemed his failure to fully condemn hatred and bigotry in the wake of deadly violence at a white supremacist march in Charlottesville earlier this month. Continue reading “Tillerson says Trump ‘speaks for himself’ on values”